“There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.”
Ezra Pound
“A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees”
Benjamin Franklin
“An old young man, will be a young old man.”
“Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.”
Pope John Paul II
“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.”
Pearl S. Buck
“The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.”
June Whitfield
“The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.”
Will Durant
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